Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone’s cup of tea and He...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Where people are not present, talking about them is either lie or ridiculous.

Don’t misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don’t be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

If I had no clothes it’d be winter. If I were naked, it’d be the truth and we could lie together.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

I broke her heart and misused her trust. I lied and cheated on her. But still she loves me like the old days and patiently waiting for the day that I may feel and understand...

Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That’s not true of course – just a feeling...

Everything is a lie from the big bang to the black holes.

The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he...

Old liarshold lies.

Not just in America. When I left my primary school, my father said, ‘Son, you are now a man,’ then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made.” Vik fought...

In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

If my Dad doesn’t like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn’t even cuss.

My entire life has been a lie.

The truth hurts when you live a life of lies.

Forget about lien about you behind your back and talking nonsense, some people can lie to you looking in your eyes…

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don’t even hold it themselves.

I swallow my own lies with big gulps, as if quickly chugging the chance of getting caught. No lie makes man thirstier than a dishonest I love you.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

my truth is laughing at me. others are just false for me.

Don’t tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we’d go crazy.

At the end of the day, I believe truth is stronger than any lie that’s out there.

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we’re in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it’s very challenging for everybody to figure out where...

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.Mercutio: And so did I.Romeo: Well, what was yours?Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.

It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.

Ale zdání vždycky klame.Nejvíc.

(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie” (Ethics, p.67).

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as...

If you can’t do it, don’t pledge to do it. Don’t be a liar; say only what you can do. It’s better for you to have a “single sentence” manifesto about your life which is...

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there’s never been any question that that’s one on my bucket list that I want. I’m not going to sit here and lie to you. If there’s one that...

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.

More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught...

I definitely used to lie about my age. I’m from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about...

And that’s the problem. When you’realive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bonecage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybodyout.But it’s a lie.

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets… Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of...

What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth?

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence.

Truth itself is the best prudence.

If you never lie to yourself, you’ll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done...

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Everyone have two faces, but mine are twins.

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you...